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Tour of the sacred library

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    AugustusFerdinand
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    It's incredibly well done, but I think the last paragraph regarding fear and the future is overreaching. To not spoil it for others... I do think that it could be a pretty incredible tool to end...

    It's incredibly well done, but I think the last paragraph regarding fear and the future is overreaching.

    To not spoil it for others...

    I do think that it could be a pretty incredible tool to end stock images companies. Instead of paying Shutterstock, just put Women Laughing Alone With Salad into your machine learning program (that you'll undoubtedly buy from some company, possibly Shutterstock) and have it generate it for you with faces of people that never existed and photographers that never clicked a shutter. Widespread enough and modeling is going to shrink as an industry.

    7 votes
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      1. AugustusFerdinand
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        Shh, it's a secret... Which it could possibly pick up by trawling for public images of people. The normal individual isn't likely to stop taking selfies or posting pictures of them and their...
        Shh, it's a secret...

        Which it could possibly pick up by trawling for public images of people. The normal individual isn't likely to stop taking selfies or posting pictures of them and their friends on social media.

        4 votes
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    skybrian
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    I won’t give it away, but you might want to consider where the pictures came from while reading this.

    I won’t give it away, but you might want to consider where the pictures came from while reading this.

    3 votes
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      1. skybrian
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        I’m not sure how far you got, but how it was made is explained after you get to the end. (After “fin”.) (I’m not into art analysis either.)

        I’m not sure how far you got, but how it was made is explained after you get to the end. (After “fin”.)

        (I’m not into art analysis either.)

        3 votes